A career as a signaller

[OneTrackMind]

It would appear Three Bridges ROC is going to have quite a lot of new faces in it over the next 6 months.

IRC1970714 - Closes 1st March 2017

• 3 x Grade 8
• 1 x Grade 6

IRC1980806 - Closes 17th March 2017

• 12 x Grade 8

'These 12 roles are divided into two signalling panels. Six posts will be ready to go live in December 2017, and six in May 2018. There is therefore a need to begin recruitment at this stage, in order to select and train the successful applicants both in offline and live environments, beginning in Summer 2017.'

Salary: Grade 8 £42,497 plus regional allowance and shift enhancements
Salary: Grade 6 £37,081 plus regional allowance and shift enhancements

I assume the latter is for new panels?

Good luck to all those who apply

 

[KneeOn]

Network Rail are dragging their heels telling me if I have an interview or not for LBG ASC.

Has anyone else had any news?

 

[SmokeAndJoe]

Nope, just stay patient. A rough pattern is a week before the interview, you'll receive the invite. Interviews tend to be on Thursday and Friday, so Thursday for Thursday and Friday for Friday. I'd always be looking at the end of the week for this.

I imagine there were so many applicants they are having to sift, and I also know they struggle to find dates to organise the interviews, so nothing gets confirmed until they have the date pencilled in.

 

[carriageline]

It would appear Three Bridges ROC is going to have quite a lot of new faces in it over the next 6 months.



IRC1970714 - Closes 1st March 2017

• 3 x Grade 8
  
• 1 x Grade 6

IRC1980806 - Closes 17th March 2017

• 12 x Grade 8

'These 12 roles are divided into two signalling panels. Six posts will be ready to go live in December 2017, and six in May 2018. There is therefore a need to begin recruitment at this stage, in order to select and train the successful applicants both in offline and live environments, beginning in Summer 2017.'



Salary: Grade 8 £42,497 plus regional allowance and shift enhancements

Salary: Grade 6 £37,081 plus regional allowance and shift enhancements



I assume the latter is for new panels?



Good luck to all those who apply

I know a lot about these roles, but whether or not I can talk about them is another matter...


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[KneeOn]

Nope, just stay patient. A rough pattern is a week before the interview, you'll receive the invite. Interviews tend to be on Thursday and Friday, so Thursday for Thursday and Friday for Friday. I'd always be looking at the end of the week for this.

I imagine there were so many applicants they are having to sift, and I also know they struggle to find dates to organise the interviews, so nothing gets confirmed until they have the date pencilled in.

I know that the railway is slow time but it is still frustrating :P

So I could be sitting in a list now of people who will be interviewed and not know? That's promising! Thanks for your help so far

 

[gradient]

IRC1980806 - Closes 17th March 2017

• 12 x Grade 8

'These 12 roles are divided into two signalling panels. Six posts will be ready to go live in December 2017, and six in May 2018. There is therefore a need to begin recruitment at this stage, in order to select and train the successful applicants both in offline and live environments, beginning in Summer 2017.'

I assume the training would only begin this summer for those starting in Dec 2017? What about those starting in May 2018? They'd start training about 5 months later?

Just curious to understand this better as my personal circumstances would better support a relocation slightly later than this summer.

Any which way, 12 great opportunities!

 

[Sunset route]

I know a lot about these roles, but whether or not I can talk about them is another matter...

Just stab in the dark, Thameslink core north and Sutton workstations?

 

[SmokeAndJoe]

I know that the railway is slow time but it is still frustrating :P

So I could be sitting in a list now of people who will be interviewed and not know? That's promising! Thanks for your help so far

You're telling me! It's been an amusing ride at times, though since the process changed to the new assessments, I've noticed that 'under consideration for assessment 2' doesn't necessarily mean you'll be getting an interview.

A couple of my applications were rejected at this stage, but most weren't.

 

[Spectroscopic]

IRC2031874 - Signaller - Grade 8 - Kings Cross/West Hampstead - x 4 positions - Full Time

 

[Spectroscopic]

I know a lot about these roles, but whether or not I can talk about them is another matter...


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Nobody likes a tease...

 

[Hull D]

You're telling me! It's been an amusing ride at times, though since the process changed to the new assessments, I've noticed that 'under consideration for assessment 2' doesn't necessarily mean you'll be getting an interview.

A couple of my applications were rejected at this stage, but most weren't.

Most weren't?
How many applications have you got running?
I ask, because I wasn't sure how many you can have running at the same time, and wondered how NR viewed multiple applications????

 

[SmokeAndJoe]

You can have as many as you like. I was encouraged to apply for everything when I did my assessment by the examiner, so I did just that. If there's anywhere you want to move to, apply!

I thought the same thing at first until I was told otherwise.

 

[carriageline]

Just stab in the dark, Thameslink core north and Sutton workstations?

Incorrect . Thameslink pod though. 6 going onto a new workstation (Likely to be Lewisham), another one, well...



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[KneeOn]

You're telling me! It's been an amusing ride at times, though since the process changed to the new assessments, I've noticed that 'under consideration for assessment 2' doesn't necessarily mean you'll be getting an interview.

A couple of my applications were rejected at this stage, but most weren't.

You've been invaluable with your insight so far, the end is near!

 

[KneeOn]

Most weren't?
How many applications have you got running?
I ask, because I wasn't sure how many you can have running at the same time, and wondered how NR viewed multiple applications????

I emailed HR asking if I could have them copy my application from one box to another and they gave me advice on if I would need to change the questions or not. I would assume the LOM interviewing you to want to see you dedicated to their boxes though.

 

[Hull D]

You can have as many as you like. I was encouraged to apply for everything when I did my assessment by the examiner, so I did just that. If there's anywhere you want to move to, apply!

I thought the same thing at first until I was told otherwise.

Ok, thanks. And I think "under consideration for assessment 2" means just that.
"Invitation to assessment 2 pending" is the phrase you're hoping to see......

 

[Mongolfiera]

Hello all,

Hope all your applications are going in the right direction.

Just an update from here if anyone is interested, applied to TVSC at Grade 7.

24th Jan I was "under consideration for Assessment 2". For timescales, today is 2 months to the day, since I submitted the application form.

Today, it's been marked on the website as "Assessment 2 completed", and I received an email entitled "reserve letter".

We are writing to confirm that you have met the benchmark for the above role, however, another candidate scored higher and therefore have been offered the position.

As you met the required benchmark we would like to keep your application for the position on hold. If for any reason the offer made for the position doesn't commence, we would like to consider you for the position. Please let us know if you are happy for us to place your application on hold.

Thank you for your patience and we will contact you with updates shortly.

So it's a "close, but no cigar" type of deal. I can live with that. There will always be those candidates better (and worse) than you.

Thanks for the advice on this thread up to now, good luck to the rest of you

 

[TomBoyd]

IRC2031874 - Signaller - Grade 8 - Kings Cross/West Hampstead - x 4 positions - Full Time

As a recent Alum of West Hampstead, I can heartily recommend working there. A tough, but great place to cut your teeth. Great people, fun, active service.

 

[martin2345uk]

I'm still "Application under consideration for assessment 2", but I only submitted the app on February 21st so not been waiting as long as a lot of people so far!

 

[OneTrackMind]

Everyone else in here is rather lucky ... I seem to be quite a slow mover ...

Application Under Review 07-Dec-2016
Application Accepted 08-Dec-2016
Application Under Consideration 14-Dec-2016
Application Under Consideration 23-Jan-2017
Test Completed 31-Jan-2017

And that is where we are at as of today.

I've phoned HR twice who have said "you have met the test benchmark, we are just waiting for the recruiting manager to shortlist". If it goes straight to 'Application Unsuccessful' I'll be fuming at the length of time it has taken

 

[signallerscot]

You need to accept that nothing in the railway happens quickly but recruitment - and HR in general - in Network Rail is fundamentally broken and has been for years. And even once you get a job they won't pay you correctly half the time! NR can be a total shambles of a company at times and it's not any getting better as the years go on.

 

[Llanigraham]

You need to accept that nothing in the railway happens quickly but recruitment - and HR in general - in Network Rail is fundamentally broken and has been for years. And even once you get a job they won't pay you correctly half the time! NR can be a total shambles of a company at times and it's not any getting better as the years go on.

Funny, but in the whole time I worked for them they never made a mistake in my pay.

 

[OneTrackMind]

You need to accept that nothing in the railway happens quickly but recruitment - and HR in general - in Network Rail is fundamentally broken and has been for years. And even once you get a job they won't pay you correctly half the time! NR can be a total shambles of a company at times and it's not any getting better as the years go on.

I accept it completely. It needs a fundamental reform though.

I also see it as a massive business opportunity. Setting up a HR company that specialises in just railway recruitment so TOC's could outsource.

 

[signallerscot]

Funny, but in the whole time I worked for them they never made a mistake in my pay.

Well lucky you. In my bit of the world there's at least one mistake every pay run and everyone round here has been affected whether it's not paying overtime, missing flexibility, even mistakes on your flat hours. The roster clerks blame Manchester and Manchester blame the roster clerks. Either way it's unacceptable but no one seems to want to do anything about it... we shouldn't have to fight the company to get paid correctly. I'm pleased you never had any problems (I presume you did actually carefully scrutinise your payslip for mistakes..?) but this has been the ongoing situation in Scotland for years now.

 

[Sunset route]

Well lucky you. In my bit of the world there's at least one mistake every pay run and everyone round here has been affected whether it's not paying overtime, missing flexibility, even mistakes on your flat hours. The roster clerks blame Manchester and Manchester blame the roster clerks. Either way it's unacceptable but no one seems to want to do anything about it... we shouldn't have to fight the company to get paid correctly. I'm pleased you never had any problems (I presume you did actually carefully scrutinise your payslip for mistakes..?) but this has been the ongoing situation in Scotland for years now.

We have the same problems and blame game down here the south east.

 

[carriageline]

Well lucky you. In my bit of the world there's at least one mistake every pay run and everyone round here has been affected whether it's not paying overtime, missing flexibility, even mistakes on your flat hours. The roster clerks blame Manchester and Manchester blame the roster clerks. Either way it's unacceptable but no one seems to want to do anything about it... we shouldn't have to fight the company to get paid correctly. I'm pleased you never had any problems (I presume you did actually carefully scrutinise your payslip for mistakes..?) but this has been the ongoing situation in Scotland for years now.

I scrutinise mine every pay day, and there's the odd mistake (normally a day paid at the wrong rate, or a day just missed off), but that's normally sorted for the 5th week pay run.

Normally it's the rosters have missed something off, mistakes happen, and they've got a hard enough job as it is. But yours sounds pretty crappy.


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[Lasbrisas]

Ok so I have just started an online application for a Signaller position and there are a lot of questions/sections that require a fairly substantial answer, does their system save as you go along as I don't want to type it all out only to find the system has timed out, I guess I could write it out in Word and then copy and paste it in.

 

[Spectroscopic]

Ok so I have just started an online application for a Signaller position and there are a lot of questions/sections that require a fairly substantial answer, does their system save as you go along as I don't want to type it all out only to find the system has timed out, I guess I could write it out in Word and then copy and paste it in.

Write it out in a word document and copy and paste it. Doesn't save the page forms individually...

 

[KneeOn]

I've been offered an interview for the London Bridge temp positions!

However I'd rather get one of the Three Bridges ROC jobs I'm in for but these are further behind in the process.

What would happen if I accepted a position at London Bridge and started school and then accepted either another position starting asap as well as one with a delayed start date?

 

[TRain87]

I've been offered an interview for the London Bridge temp positions!

However I'd rather get one of the Three Bridges ROC jobs I'm in for but these are further behind in the process.

What would happen if I accepted a position at London Bridge and started school and then accepted either another position starting asap as well as one with a delayed start date?

If you accept a position, all your other open applications are terminated